Talk:Fort Moore (1846-1853)

Cemetery
Some mention should be made of the historic Fort Moore Hill Cemetery (see here), which was later relocated. MisfitToys 19:24, 30 October 2006 (UTC)
 * Great find. I'll work it in (you shouldn't hesitate, of course ;-) ).  --Bobak 15:28, 31 October 2006 (UTC)

Californio Heros
Statues of José Mariá Flores, Jose Antonio Carrillo and Andres Pico should be erected here, as they were brave Californio defenders of their homes, land and country. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by DonDeigo (talk • contribs) 22:00, 3 April 2007 (UTC).

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Your recent additions to Fort Moore
I have noticed your recent edits of Fort Moore of November 17. Unfortunate your very colorful but interesting language appears to have a number of apparent factual errors. Do you have any citations that could support your additions? Could the views of a relatively dry and arid area from a hastily erected military fort that could lob cannon balls into a recently conquered village be called "romantic"? Early photographs of Los Angeles are notable for the lack of trees prior to the introduction of additional irrigation provided during the later American period. Early USGS topographic maps made before the removal of Fort Moore Hill showed Sunset Blvd. (now Cesar Chavez) being north of the Hill and separates the Hill from another hill on what is now the west side of the current Chinatown. Another error that you appeared to have added is the mention that Hill extends west to the "modern Los Angeles High School". Unfortunately the current Los Angeles High School is at Olympic and Rimpau, 7 miles west of Downtown, where it has been since 1917. Describing Los Angeles as an "adobe town" might be anachronistic. Although true for the Spanish period, may not be true for the Mexican period during which foreign trade occurred. When Richard Dana visited Los Angeles a decade earlier, he described Los Angeles as a town of brick and stone, which replaced adobe during the Mexican period. If you can support your interesting description with solid references, I would like to keep most of it. If you can't support most of your statement, I would have no choice but to revert it as fanciful unreferenced material. 107.216.165.224 (talk) 03:18, 22 November 2015 (UTC)

Anonymous user 107.216.165.224 Wyeson  06:28, 24 November 2015 (UTC)

Anon, I am having trouble understanding what you are saying. Some comments. The article talks about views of LA, buty then you describe how unattractive you think the hill was. I do not follow. Then you ask for details with references of what LA looked like, which belong to articles on the history of LA or Olvera Street. The article only summarizes well-known features of LA already discussed elsewhere, such as vineyards and the old historic town. Fort Moore and its hill lasted for many years after it was put up, so just how agriculture looked in 1846 is not important.

Now, LA was never a town of brick and stone. Did Dana really say that? Here is a newspaper discussing the adobe buildings as late as 1874: Herald. Sunset Blvd cut through the existing hill around 1900, but this street already has its own article.

In general, your comments are about things already discussed in the body of the article and in other articles. Wyeson 07:03, 24 November 2015 (UTC)  Wyeson  07:03, 24 November 2015 (UTC)